269 tie: An electoral college 'doomsday'?

"President Obama, with Vice President Palin? President Biden? President Pelosi? Call them the "Doomsday" scenarios -- On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks Sen. Barack Obama as president, but the Senate, with former Democrat Joe Lieberman voting with Republicans, deadlocks at 50-50, so Vice President Dick Cheney steps in to break the tie to make Republican Sarah Palin his successor.

"Wow," said longtime presidential historian Stephen Hess. "Wow, that would be amazing, wouldn't it?"

"If this scenario ever happened, it would be like a scene from the movie 'Scream' for Democrats," said Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh. "The only thing worse for the Democrats than losing the White House, again, when it had the best chance to win in a generation, but to do so at the hands of Cheney and Lieberman. That would be cruel."

Sound impossible? It's not. There are at least a half-dozen plausible ways the election can end in a tie, and at least one very plausible possibility - giving each candidate the states in which they now lead in the polls, only New Hampshire - which went Republican in 2000 and Democratic in 2004, each time by just 1.5 percent - needs to swap to the Republican column to wind up with a 269-269 tie."

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This would be hilarious. Americans would "respect" US democracy even less than they did after 2000.

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Would this senate or the next senate vote in the vp? Because the next senate will have a larger democratic majority. Either way, I think in order to show "unity" (like in 2000), teh pubs would step across party lines and vote in Biden IF Obama won the majority. The same would go if McCain won the majority in the house.

However, after last week adn this week, without another Palin bump, theres just plain no chance for McCain in this election. Thanks GOD!

I don't think Lieberman would back Palin over Biden...
McCain over Obama sure... but it would undermine his arguments to pick Palin over Biden.

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